Spitalfields House has dated this piece to the 1900s.
It has been suggested that Giambolgna’s Mars originally held a severed head, which is has been lost from most surviving examples – and that the Soldani-Benzi cast is a close representation of the lost original. In “Giambologna: The Complete Sculpture” the Scholar, Charles Avery discusses such a claim (1987).
This example is a late 18th or early 19th-century copy. Dark patination.
This sculpture views well in the round and is certainly not to be overlooked.
Spitalfields House has dated this piece to the 1900s.
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Bronze of Mars or the “Executioner,” After Massimiliano Soldani Benzi (1656-1740).
